Telescope

About the show

Since the dawn of civilization, humans have gazed toward the heavens and asked: How did the universe begin? Where did we come from? Are we alone? Over the centuries, we have built bigger and better tools to try and answer these questions.

'Telescope’ goes out of this world to explore the history of the telescope from Galileo to Newton to Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), currently under construction. Detailing mankind’s efforts to understand our place in the stars, this unique film blasts off to discover whether – with the power of the JWST, those epic questions about the universe will finally be answered.

TELESCOPE, directed by Oscar(R)-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn ("My Architect, "Two Hands",) is a dynamic journey behind the scenes of the next step in the evolution of telescopes: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.